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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Collection of schedule activity dependencies that makes up a project schedule network diagram






2. Aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages to establish an authorized cost baseline






3. Determining project stakeholder information needs and defining a communication approach






4. Any unique and verifiable product - result - or capability to perform a service that must be produced to complete a process - phase or project.






5. Something tangible used in performing an activity to produce a product or result






6. Modification of a logical relationship that directs a delay in the successor activity. activity with a 10 day lag - cannot start until 10 days after an activity is finished






7. Fixed price contract where the buyer pays the seller a set amount regardless of the sellers costs






8. Someone with management authority over an organizational unit within a functional organization.






9. Group of potential causes of risk. such as technical - external - organizational - environmental - project management. a category may include subcategories






10. Group of persons with a shared objective who fulfill their roles with little or no time spent meeting fact to face.






11. Tracking - reviewing - regulating the progress to meet the performance objectives defined in the project management plan






12. Processes involved in estimating - budgeting - and controlling costs so that the project can be completed within the approved budget






13. Permission and direction to begin work on a specific schedule activity or work package or control account. sanctions project work to ensure that the work is done by the identified organization - at the right time - and in the proper sequence






14. Document describing how project risk management will be structured and performed on the project. contains the list of project risks - the results of risk analysis and risk responses






15. Collection of projects or programs and other work that are grouped together to facilitate effective management of that work to meet strategic business objectives






16. Approved specific version of the detailed scope statement - work breakdown structure (WBS) and its associated WBS dictionary






17. Area of project management defined by its knowledge requirements and described in terms of its component processes - practices - inputs - outputs - tools and techniques






18. Analysis. a statistical technique that calculates the average outcome when the future includes scenarios that may or may not happen. used in decision tree analysis.






19. Any of all external environmental factors and internal organizational environmental factors that surround or influence the projects success. these factors are from any or all of the enterprises involved in the project and include organizational cultu






20. Amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any immediately following schedule activities.






21. Information and data on the status of the project schedule activities being performed to accomplish the project work collected as part of the direct and manage project execute processes. Information includes: status of deliverables - implementation s






22. Risk that remains after risk responses have been implemented






23. The approved estimate for the project or any work breakdown structure component or any schedule activity






24. Structure in which the project manager has full authority to assign priorities - apply resources and direct the work of persons assigned to the project






25. Auditing the quality requirements and the results from quality control measurements to ensure appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are used






26. Identifying quality requirements and/or standards for the project and product and documenting how the project will demonstrate compliance






27. Project schedule compression that changes network logic to overlap phases that would normally be done in sequence






28. Buyer pays the seller a set amount (as defined by the contract) and the seller can earn an additional amount if the seller meets defined performance criteria






29. The earliest point in time on which the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can start - based on the schedule network logic - the data date and any schedule constraints.






30. Organizational body or entity assigned various responsibilities related to the centralized and coordinated management of those projects under its domain.






31. Hierarchal structure of resources by resource category and resource type used in resource leveling schedules and to develop resource limited schedules and which may be used to identify and analyze project human resource management






32. Sum of products - services and results to be provided as a project






33. Implementing risk response plans - tracking identified risks - monitoring residual risks - identifying new risks and evaluating risk process throughout the project






34. Summary level project schedule that identifies the major deliverables and work breakdown structure components and key schedule milestones






35. The value of work performed expressed in terms of the approved budget assigned to that work for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component. ALSO BCWP.






36. Something toward which work is to be directed - a strategic position to be attained - or a purpose to be achieved - a result to be obtained - a product to produced or a service to be performed






37. A documented tabulation of schedule activities that shows the activity description - activity identifier - and a sufficiently detailed scope of work description so project team members understand what work is to be performed






38. An estimating technique that uses the values of parameters - such as scope - cost - budget - and duration or measures of scale such as size - weight - and complexity from a previous similar activity as the basis of estimating the same parameter or me






39. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure






40. Measure of schedule efficiency on a project. ratio of earned value (EV) and the planned value (PV). SV = EV minus PV.






41. Model used in conjunction with manual methods or project management software to perform schedule network analysis to generate the project schedule for use in managing the executing or a project






42. Structure that relates the project organizational breakdown structure to the work breakdown structure to help ensure that each component of the project scope of work is assigned to a person or team






43. Risk response planning technique associated with threats that seeks to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk to below an acceptable threshold






44. The right to apply project resources - expend funds - make decisions or give approvals






45. A specific technique for measuring the performance of work and used to establish the performance measurement baseline






46. Point in time that work was scheduled to start on a schedule activity. called planned start date.






47. Condition or capability that must be met or possessed by a system - product - service result or component to satisfy a contract - standard - specification or other formally imposed document.






48. Any item - internal or external - that is required by a process before that process proceeds






49. Multiple attributes associated with each schedule activity that can be included within the activity list. activity attributes include activity codes - predecessor activities - successor activities - logical relationships - leads and lags - resource r






50. The latest possible point in time that a schedule activity may begin based upon the schedule network logic - the project completion date and any constraints assigned to schedule activities without violating schedule constraint or delaying project com